Joachim Preuss (prehistoric)

Joachim Franz Wilhelm Preuss (born August 10, 1927 in Quedlinburg ) is a German prehistoric scientist . He held the chair for prehistory and early history at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg .

Life

Preuss attended high school , which he had to interrupt in 1944, because he was first drafted into the Reich Labor Service and later into military service. He was taken prisoner by the British , from which he was released in 1946. Afterwards he initially continued his school attendance and passed the Abitur in 1947 . Then he worked in a construction business until 1948. Between 1948 and 1952 he studied history , geography and prehistory at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In professional history he obtained in 1952 with the work of the temporal and cultural position of the new finds from the Stone Age burial ground to Tangermünde the diploma . From 1953 he worked as a research assistant and from 1959 as a senior research assistant at the Institute for Prehistory and Protohistory at Martin Luther University. In 1961 he did his doctorate under Friedrich Schlette and Martin Jahn on the subject of The Baalberger Group of Central Germany and its position in the Central European Neolithic . Between 1966 and 1969 he led excavations at five large stone graves in the Haldensleber forest . In 1976 he received his doctorate B on the topic of deep-engraving ceramics. A key to understanding Middle Neolithic cultural relations . In 1981 he was appointed full professor of prehistory and after Friedrich Schlette's retirement in 1986, he took over the management of the institute. In 1991 Preuss retired; his successor was Klaus-Dieter Jäger .

Fonts

author

• The temporal and cultural position of the new finds from the Stone Age burial ground in Tangermünde (unprinted diploma thesis 1952, printed in: Scientific journal of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Society and Linguistic Series 3, 1954, pp. 415-482)
• The Baalberger Group of Central Germany and its position in the Central European Neolithic (unprinted dissertation 1961, printed: The Baalberger Group in Central Germany , Halle 1966)
• The old deep engraving ceramics. A key to understanding Middle Neolithic cultural relations (unprinted dissertation B 1975, printed: The Altmark Group of Deep Stitch Ceramics , Berlin 1980)

editor

• Symbolae praehistoricae. Festschrift for the 60th birthday of Friedrich Schlette (Berlin 1975)
• From archaeological sources to historical statements (Berlin 1979)
• The Neolithic in Central Europe (3 volumes, Langenweißbach 1996–1999)

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Beier , Jonas Beran (eds.): Selecta Praehistorica. Festschrift for Joachim Preuss (= contributions to the prehistory and early history of Central Europe. Volume 7). Verlag Beier & Beran, Wilkau-Haßlau 1995, ISBN 3-930036-09-6 .
• Lothar Mertens : Lexicon of the GDR historians. Biographies and bibliographies on the historians from the German Democratic Republic. Saur, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-598-11673-X , p. 491.

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Preuss in the catalog of the German National Library (very incorrect!)